Sicredi
Sicredi Conexão is a Brazilian credit cooperative operating 58 service points across Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Minas Gerais, offering 300+ financial products to individual members, SMEs, and rural producers under a member-owned cooperative governance model within the Sicredi System.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1981
- HeadquartersRodeio Bonito, Brazil
- Headcount251–500
- GTM typeB2B and B2C
- OfferingServices
What Sicredi does
Sicredi Conexão is a Brazilian credit cooperative and part of the Sicredi System (comprising over 100 cooperatives), operating 58 service points across Northwestern Rio Grande do Sul, Western Santa Catarina, Southern Minas Gerais, and Zona da Mata de Minas Gerais. Founded on April 18, 1981, as Credirodeio in Rodeio Bonito/RS, it later merged with Credifred (1997) to form Sicredi Alto Uruguai, and was rebranded to Sicredi Conexão in 2022 to reflect territorial expansion. The cooperative offers more than 300 financial products across three segments — individual (Você), business (Empresa), and agribusiness (Agronegócio) — including checking accounts, Mastercard-branded credit/debit cards, consortium plans (Sicredi ranks 7th in Brazil by managed quotas), credit lines, investments, insurance, pension, foreign exchange, merchant acquiring, and the Plano Safra agricultural credit program (R$1.6 billion allocated for 2026/2027).
The cooperative's business model rests on member-ownership: individuals and entities acquire a small capital share to become co-owners, participate in governance through General Assemblies (46,000+ members participated in 2026), and share in distributed results (sobras). Revenue is generated through credit operations (interest income across Plano Safra, personal, business, and consortium lending), transaction fees, insurance commissions, investment product fees, card interchange, and foreign exchange. The distribution architecture combines physical branches with digital channels (mobile app, internet banking, WhatsApp Corporate, Banco24Horas ATMs, authorized agents) and partner networks (convênios).
Operationally, Sicredi Conexão has deployed an OCR and Generative AI solution (October 2025) for consortium credit document processing that reduced analysis time from approximately 6 days to 2 days, piloted across 17 cooperatives. The cooperative also runs an extensive non-financial ecosystem — A União Faz a Vida (education), Conexão Mulher (600+ participants), Líder Jovem (300+ participants), Capacitar (~30,000 people over five years), Fundo de Desenvolvimento Regional (390+ approved projects), Atitude Solidária, and Juntos Fazemos o Bem (R$4 million+ in donations) — that reinforces community ties and member retention in geographies underserved by large commercial banks.
Sicredi firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Sicredi
- Legal name
- Sicredi Conexão
- Website
- https://sicrediconexao.com.br
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1981
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 251–500 employees
- Short description
- Sicredi Conexão is a Brazilian credit cooperative operating 58 service points across Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Minas Gerais, offering 300+ financial products to individual members, SMEs, and rural producers under a member-owned cooperative governance model within the Sicredi System.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Where Sicredi is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Rodeio Bonito
- HQ country
- Brazil
- HQ region
- Latin America
Offices55 records
Markets served
Sicredi business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B and B2C
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Credit Operations: Interest income from lending products including personal credit, business credit, agribusiness credit (Plano Safra), consórcios (pooled savings/credit schemes), and other loan products. This is the primary revenue driver for the cooperative.
- Account and Service Fees: Fees from checking accounts, payment services, collections, boleto issuance, direct debit, automatic debit (DDA), payroll accounts, and other transactional banking services.
- Consortium Administration: Revenue from administering consorcios (pooled credit groups) for automobiles, real estate, trucks, tractors, services, and other assets. Members pay into the pool and receive credits through drawings or bids.
- Card Services: Revenue from credit and debit card operations, including interchange fees and merchant acquiring services.
- Insurance Products: Insurance products including life insurance (Vida Mais Flex, Vida do Meu Jeito), residential insurance, auto insurance, rural insurance (granizo, coffee, multi-risk), and civil liability insurance, distributed through the cooperative network.
- Investment Products: Revenue from managing investment products including savings accounts, fixed income funds, investment funds (FI Invest, multimercado, equities), RDC (Cooperatives Deposit Receipts), LCA (Agribusiness Letters of Credit), and pension plans (PGBL/VGBL).
- Foreign Exchange and International Trade: Revenue from currency exchange services, export/import financing (ACC, ACE, FINIMP), letters of credit, and international remittances.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Usage-based | Monthly | Credit products with rates subject to creditworthiness analysis |
| Usage-based | Monthly | Investment products with returns based on market performance |
| Subscription | Monthly | Insurance products with premiums based on coverage type and risk profile |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels8 records
Marketing channels9 records
Sicredi product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Sicredi Conexão is a credit cooperative offering more than 300 financial products and services across three member segments: personal (Você), business (Empresa), and agribusiness (Agronegócio). Its core offerings include checking accounts, credit cards (Mastercard-branded), credit lines, consortium plans, investments, insurance, pension, foreign exchange, merchant acquiring, and digital certificates. Members acquire a small capital share, become co-owners, and participate in cooperative governance.
Product overview
Sicredi is a cooperative financial institution offering more than 300 financial products and services organized across three primary member segments: Você (Personal), Empresa (Business), and Agronegócio (Agribusiness). Its product architecture combines core transactional and credit products — checking accounts, credit cards (Mastercard), consortium plans (one of Brazil's top 7 consortium administrators), credit lines, investment products, insurance, pension, foreign exchange, digital certificates, and merchant acquiring — with a layered ecosystem of digital channels (Internet Banking, mobile app, WhatsApp Corporate, ATMs). Overlaying the financial portfolio is a set of non-financial programs including the innovation platform (Sicredi Inova credit, Shopping Sicredi e-commerce marketplace), the Fundo de Desenvolvimento Regional (FDR), and social/educational programs such as A União Faz a Vida, Programa Capacitar, Educação Financeira, Conexão Mulher, Líder Jovem, Longevidade, and Atitude Solidária. The cooperative also operates Convênios (authorized partner service points), a Classificados classifieds marketplace, and digital access via an AI-assisted OCR system for consortium credit document processing. Members become co-owners of the institution through a small capital share, participate in governance decisions, and share in results.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Conta-Corrente (Checking Account)
Quantifiable outcome
- Sicredi Conexão will make R$ 1.6 billion in rural credit available through Plano Safra 2026/2027 across RS, SC, and MG.
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use Sicredi
Customer profileNamed customers3 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Sicredi technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
AI capability6 records
Feature1 record
Sicredi partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- SENAR (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural)coreSicredi Conexão partners with SENAR (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural) for professional training and qualification of rural producers. Courses are provided free of charge and address topics such as rural bookkeeping, tractor maintenance, fruit processing, drone usage, and other agricultural skills.
- SEBRAE (Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas)coreSicredi partners with SEBRAE for educational content and training programs. SEBRAE participation is noted in programs such as the Tax Reform workshops, where Sicredi and SEBRAE partnered to deliver educational content to business owners and producers.
- Cooperativa AuroraminorPartnership for joint training initiatives through the Capacitar program, offering courses in partnership with Cooperativa Aurora.
- CooperA1minorPartnership through the Capacitar program for professional training and qualification of associates and community members.
- CooperItaipuminorPartnership through the Capacitar program for joint training and capacity-building initiatives.
- AuriverdeminorPartnership through the Capacitar program for professional training in partnership with Auriverde cooperative.
- Cotrifred (Cooperativa Tritícola de Frederico Westphalen)coreCotrifred was the founding partner of Credifred (founded March 12, 1993) and has historical significance in the cooperative's origins. The relationship continues through intercooperation and training programs.
- Secretarias MunicipaisminorMunicipal governments partner with Sicredi Conexão through the Capacitar program to deliver free professional training courses to associates and community members.
- Associação dos Produtores Rurais da Comunidade Serra dos BorgescoreSicredi partnered with the Associação dos Produtores Rurais da Comunidade Serra dos Borges in Santa Rita do Sapucaí/MG to develop the project 'A cooperação da abelha e o café: preservação do bioma e geração de renda', which won 3rd place in the Desenvolvimento Ambiental category at the 2024 Prêmio SomosCoop.
- CooperAmetista (Cooperativa dos Garimpeiros de Ametista do Sul)coreSicredi's intercooperation project with CooperAmetista was recognized by FAO as a Good Practice and received awards at OCERGS. The partnership demonstrates intercooperation between credit and mining cooperatives in Ametista do Sul/RS.
- CoogamaicoreCoogamai was recognized at the OCERGS award in the Intercooperação category alongside Sicredi's CooperAmetista case, demonstrating strong intercooperation partnerships.
- FAO (Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura)coreFAO recognized the Propriedade Sustentável program and the intercooperation initiative with CooperAmetista as Good Practices, integrating them into the FAO Good Practices platform as global references in sustainable development. This represents the highest international recognition for Sicredi's sustainability initiatives.
- FEPI (Centro de Ensino Superior de Ponte Nova)minorSicredi partnered with FEPI to provide knowledge and training to milk producers in the Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais, focusing on dairy production improvement and management qualification.
- Banco Sicredi / Sistema SicredicoreSicredi Conexão is one of more than 100 cooperatives forming the Sicredi system, operating as an integrated network with centralized technology, products, and governance standards. The system provides R$ 72.1 billion in Plano Safra resources and R$ 57.8 billion in total credits under management, and coordinates consortium administration making Sicredi the 7th largest administrator in Brazil.
- MastercardcoreSicredi issues Mastercard-branded credit and debit cards including Black, Platinum, Gold, International, and Touch tiers. Mastercard provides the payment network infrastructure and brand association for card products distributed through Sicredi's cooperative network.
Scale indicators15 records
Recent moves13 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Sicredi competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Unicred: Unicred is a credit cooperative focused on healthcare professionals and liberal professionals, offering banking and credit services. It is a direct peer to Sicredi Conexão in the cooperative financial institution model, though with a narrower membership focus.
- Sicoob: Sicoob is Brazil's largest credit cooperative system, with hundreds of cooperatives serving individuals, businesses, and agribusiness. It is the most direct peer to Sicredi Conexão, offering an identical cooperative banking model with multi-channel distribution across Brazil.
- Cresol: Cresol is a major Brazilian credit cooperative system with strong focus on family farming and agribusiness. Like Sicredi Conexão, Cresol operates multi-state branch networks and serves rural producers under the Plano Safra program.
Regional players
- Banrisul: Banrisul is the regional state bank of Rio Grande do Sul with deep penetration across the state. It is a strong direct competitor to Sicredi Conexão in RS, offering similar retail, agribusiness, and government payroll services through a wide branch network.
Emerging players
- Nubank: Nubank is Brazil's largest digital bank with millions of customers and a low-cost operating model. While it does not have a cooperative model, it competes with Sicredi Conexão for personal banking customers (accounts, credit cards, personal loans) through a mobile-first experience.
- Banco Inter: Banco Inter is a Brazilian digital bank with a full-service super-app model including accounts, cards, loans, and investments. It is an emerging competitor to Sicredi Conexão, particularly in personal banking and SME segments, leveraging digital acquisition at low cost.
Broad incumbents
- Itaú Unibanco: Itaú Unibanco is Brazil's largest private bank, offering full-service retail, corporate, and agribusiness banking. Its nationwide footprint, including presence in Sicredi Conexão's three-state territory, makes it a broad incumbent competitor.
- Bradesco: Bradesco is one of Brazil's largest private banks with nationwide branches, including in RS, SC, and MG where Sicredi Conexão operates. It competes across retail banking, credit, insurance, and consortium products.
- Caixa Econômica Federal: Caixa is Brazil's federal savings bank with a massive branch network and strong presence in payroll, FGTS, and social benefit accounts. It competes with Sicredi Conexão in retail banking, government-backed lending, and consortium products.
- Banco do Brasil: Banco do Brasil is the largest Brazilian bank with dominant agribusiness lending (Plano Safra) and an extensive branch network across RS, SC, and MG. It is a broad incumbent competing with Sicredi Conexão in rural credit, deposits, and government-backed lending programs.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Sicredi social profiles
Digital presenceSicredi compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance4 records
Sicredi financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Sicredi leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles17 records
Sicredi funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Sicredi M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Sicredi
What does Sicredi do?
Sicredi Conexão is a credit cooperative offering more than 300 financial products and services across three member segments: personal (Você), business (Empresa), and agribusiness (Agronegócio). Its core offerings include checking accounts, credit cards (Mastercard-branded), credit lines, consortium plans, investments, insurance, pension, foreign exchange, merchant acquiring, and digital certificates. Members acquire a small capital share, become co-owners, and participate in cooperative governance.
Is Sicredi a public or private company?
Sicredi is a private company. It is classified as management employee owned and is currently operating.
When was Sicredi founded?
Sicredi was founded in 1981. It employs 251 to 500 people.
Where is Sicredi based?
Sicredi is headquartered in Rodeio Bonito, Brazil, in the Latin America region.
How does Sicredi make money?
Seven revenue lines are on record. Credit Operations are the primary driver. The others are account and Service Fees, consortium Administration, card Services, insurance Products, investment Products and foreign Exchange and International Trade.
Who are Sicredi's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Unicred, Sicoob and Cresol. Banrisul is listed as a regional player. Emerging players are Nubank and Banco Inter. Broad incumbents are Itaú Unibanco, Bradesco, Caixa Econômica Federal and Banco do Brasil.
Does Sicredi have an API?
No public API is recorded for Sicredi.